I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.
Oriana FallaciRead
A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Passion is essential for the survival and revitalization of a culture or civilization.
Oriana Fallaci's quote emphasizes the critical role that passion plays in the existence and preservation of a civilization or culture. Without the fervor and enthusiasm that passion embodies, societies may stagnate and fail to innovate or connect deeply with their values, ultimately leading to their decline or disappearance.
Themes
PassionCultureCivilizationSurvivalEnthusiasm
In practice
Example use cases
During a speech at a cultural festival, one could cite this quote to inspire artists and performers.
More from Oriana Fallaci
All quotes βI know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.
Oriana FallaciRead
A lot of women ask themselves why they should bring a child into the world? So that it will be hungry, so that it will be cold, so that it will be betrayed and humiliated, so that it will be slaughtered by war or disease? They reject the hope that its hunger will be satisfied, its cold warmed, that loyalty and respect will accompany it through life, that it will be a devote a life to the effort to eliminate war and disease.
Oriana FallaciRead
You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
Oriana FallaciRead
What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.
Oriana FallaciRead
I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
Oriana FallaciRead
Similar quotes
It has been said: The whole is more than the sum of its parts. It is more correct to say that the whole is something else than the sum of its parts, because summing up is a meaningless procedure, whereas the whole-part relationship is meaningful.
Kurt KoffkaRead
Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it's hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time in their lives when they thought about whether they really wanted to wake up the next day. Wanting to die seems like it might be a part of being alive.
Nick HornbyRead
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
Benjamin N. CardozoRead
As long as quick numerical growth remains the primary indicator of church health, the truth will be compromised. Instead, churches must once again begin measuring success not in terms of numbers but in terms of fidelity to the Scriptures.
Mark DeverRead
Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing.
Tara BrachRead
A fly is as untamable as a hyena.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead